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"NASA, Opportunity is speaking, I am sanded up on Mars!"

Washington, USA - NASA's technicians prove confident about the possibility of finding tha right solution to help the robot to escape from the mess in which it got itself

US Opportunity probe is "sanded up" on Mars. Experts from NASA have in fact revealed that the robot has stopped and its six wheels have been blocked sinking for about a 80% in the planet’s sand. Nevertheless, the US space agency’s technicians would not be worried as it has been decided to wait before trying to make Opportunity move again, opting for a computer-generated simulation and then for ano...

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Rome, Italy, 05/06/2005 14:10
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